NRC Handelsblad publishes news article on research into living heart tissue

Today the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad published a news article on the research with living heart tissue at Erasmus MC led by Dr. Yanick Taverne, heart transplant surgeon, head of the Translational Cardiothoracic Surgery Reserach Lab and one of the principal investigators within the scientific programme Medical Delta Cardiac Arrythmia Lab.

It is the first time in the Netherlands that research is being conducted in this way with living human heart tissue, being residual tissue from heart surgery. The researchers hope to gain a more accurate picture of how cells communicate with each other and how heart failure and cardiac arrhythmia can be treated, but also how patients can have the best chance of a properly functioning heart after a transplant .

The article can be read here (in Dutch)

An extensive news item about the research and an item produced by RTL Nieuws can be read here (in Dutch)